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Food Chains/Webs
Question | Answer |
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producers | organisms that make their own food |
consumers | animals that eat other organisms |
herbivores | animals that eat only plants |
carnivores | animals that eat only other animals |
omnivores | animals that eat both plants and animals |
decomposers | organisms that feed on dead plants and animals, as well as animal wastes |
predators | animals that hunt other animals for food |
prey | animals that are hunted by predators |
food chain | the path of energy from the sun to a producer to an animal to another animal |
food web | a group of overlapping food chains |
energy | what is needed to do work or cause change |
unique niche | an organism’s role in an ecosystem based on how it gets its food |
sun | a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the plants in the solar system |
nocturnal | active at night |
flow | Move along or out steadily and continuously in a current or stream |
graze | to feed on grass and pasturage, as do cattle, sheep, etc. |